Oh Mummy is a classic game, one of the twelve freely available with an Amstrad CPC 464, so released in 1984 by Gem Software.
After FitoWestBank Adolfito is releasing another windows remake, this time of Oh Mummy.
ByteRealms just wrote that they received the tapes to write the CPCRetroDev 2016 productions. Now we have to wait for them to be written and sold.
A french for talking about a french game : Billy la banlieue (Loriciels 1986) by Edward. The presentation of the game starts at 1m45.
Thanks to the video of Jean-Christophe K / Ma Vie de Geek, I stumbled on The Abbey of crime on Steam which is a free remake of the game Abadia del Crimen.
4Mhz posted a video of El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc on Twitter (the lost treasure of Cuauhtemoc), their latest work in progress Amstrad CPC game (platform).
You will see the starting screen with credits and music, and then the first seconds of the game, it's nice !
A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Helter Skelterr is available. This arcade and puzzle game was out on Amstrad CPC in 1990 by Audiogenic.
He also tests it on PC, ST, Amiga, BBC, C64 and Spectrum.
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Pixel Trip Studios already released on Steam a remake of Paper Boy : The VideoKid. The game is available for 3,49 €.
ACE v1.14 by Philippe Rimauro is an Amstrad CPC emulator for MorphOS.
After the windows remake of Oh Mummy by Adolfito, here are 2 other :
A video of the game Amstrad CPC La Aventura original (Aventuras AD in 1988) on Youtube by Retro Danuart.
It's a spanish text adventure game, an adaptation of the firt text adventure game on a computer in 1975 : Colossal Cave Adventure by William Crowther. The original game was ridden with enigmas and was considered as a difficult game. Dont get lost in a maze !
CPC Game Reviews has a lot of reviews ... of Amstrad CPC games ! But now there are links to Youtube videos if any exists for a game. That's the occasion to go on his site or come back.
VK007 has written lately 2 Dizzy games with the DizzyAGE engine for windows :
In his last tweet, 4Mhz posted about the trailer of El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc which is on McKlain Youtube channel.
Amstrad CPC code written by 4Mhz, sound and FX by McKlain and graphism by SAD1942.
For 27,50 € (France) or 31,50 € (worldwide), you can order one clone of the Dk'tronics mouse interface created by Bryce and made there by Talrek. Be quick before they are all sold, limited number.
The video let you see this interface used with an Amstrad CPC+ and a compatible Logitech RX250 mouse with this interface. It should be found easily.
After the release of Pinball Dreams preview, here is something to make you thirsty for more : two new tables.
After commercial games, this time Xyphoe walks around Chibi Akumas (Episode 1 : Invasion!), a homebrew game.
Chibi Akumas (Episode 1 : Invasion!) is a shoot them up by Keith Sear (Keith56) released in 2016. and episode 2 is a work in progress.
After the part 1 of Power Drift on Amstrad CPC by Xyphoe, here is the part 2 of Power Drift.
Power Drift is a car race game by Sega, edited on Amstrad CPC by Activision in 1989.
He is back with us and he is working on an indie game : Odiesoft.
You will be able to get news of Georg Odenthal on :
The Amstrad PenPad PDA600 of ChinnyVision previously tested had a small problem being icky sticky ! Happily, The Backoffice was able to clean the PDA600 with chimical products in a video of no less 47 minutes.
There is a simple solution to avoid anti-aliasing in screenshots taken in the Amstrad CPC emulator WinApe. You have to disable the option Pal Emulation.
The solution was given by Roudoudou.
Edward is a french youtubber whose speciality is the history of video games. His last video is about the 30 best arcade conversions on Amstrad CPC.
Well, as some games are not that good, the best 30 arcade conversions are not the 30 best games...
The 30 arcade conversions are from the bottom to the best : Final Fight, Altered Beast, Street Fighter, Outrun, le Retour du Jedi, Gemini Wing, Ghots'n'Goblins, S.T.U.N. Runner, Cabal, Gunsmoke, R-Type (no mention of the Easter Egg R-Type), Super Hang-On, Paper Boy, Double Dragon, Ghouls'n Ghosts, Chase H.Q., Bubble Bobble (without talking of BB4CPC), Xybots, Gauntlet, Operation Wolf, Commando, Arkanoid, Kung Fu Master, Prohibition (Empire City on arcade), Space Harrier, After Burner, Smash T.V., Shinobi, Ikari Warriors and Renegade.
Novabug presents his personal top 11 of Amstrad CPC games created in 2016 in a video on Youtube, over more than 75 games created this year.
So, his personal top is the following :
Personnaly the best game for 2016 is Magica, but they are other very good games too for sure.
You can also see his Top 11 of Amstrad CPC games in 2015.
Using CPCTelera Salvador Cantero is working on Red Planet 2 for Amstrad CPC. Red Planet 1 was for another platform.
Metr81 is testing Outlaws by RetroBytes Productions. It's a shooting game like Operation Wolf or Cabal out in 2016 for the CPCRetroDev competition where it won the first place at the PRO category.
A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Thrust is available. This arcade game was out on Amstrad CPC by Firebird in 1986.
He also tests it on BBC, C64, Atari XL/XE, C16 and Spectrum.
In 2012 a PC remake (written in basic : QB64) of a classic Barbarian 1987 by F.L.
Two years later, it was out for the Sega Genesis, and now for the PC Engine using the HUC C compilator !
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The last Youtube video by JB le Daron is about an Amstrad CPC adventure game with graphics by Ubi Soft : Omeyad released in 1989.
The description given by JB le Daron and the test of the game on CPC Game Reviews should make you playing the game (well if you understand french of course). The story takes place in medieval Arabia in the city of Omeyad. You will have to meet several of people of the town who will give you missions to complete. Of course you will have to use objets to do that. The town and its people are reacting to what you do, which is rare in games!
I didnt write yet about all Amstrad games released for the CPCRetroDev 2016 contest.
The Legend of Anubis by Core Studio is one of these games (arcade). It was written by Adrian Gonzalez Herrera, Mateo Bernal Montoya and Jose Roberto Martinez Gras.
You enter an old pyramide facing many dangers and traps with one goal in mind, to get an ancient relic : the mask of Anubis, the god with a chacal head, governing the land of death.
Another WIP game, Rafael Castillo started one month ago to write Baba's Palace announced on Twitter. Graphics are realy nice.
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